Canadian Soldier, War Hero, Military Cross Recipient, and a casualty of World War I, who fought and lost his life. He was born one of three children as Arthur Ross Ackerman to Benjamin Franklin Ackerman (1850-1933), and his wife Frances Charlotte Lumsden Ackerman (1853-1935) in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, on September 14, 1893. His siblings included a sister named Estelle Lumsden Ackerman (1876-1938), and another sister named Edna Jennie Ackerman (1883-1940). Raised in the Methodist faith, he was educated locally in his native Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and later found work as a manufacturer. During this time, the family resided at 222 Dalhousie Street in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Following the outbreak of World War I, he, like so many other young men of the time decided to enlist and serve his country in the Army. He volunteered at the age of 21 and was trained at Valcartier, Quebec, Canada, before being sent to Britain, where he was deployed to the chalk fields of Salisbury, near Stonehenge. He joined the 57th Battalion at the beginning of World War I and joined the 2nd Battalion, and was part of the 1st Canadian Trench Mortar Battery, and the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), or the Canadian Expeditionary Force (or CEF). He was first given the rank of Private, then promoted to the rank of Sergeant, then promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal, and lastly, he was promoted to the rank of Temporary Lieutenant in December 1915. He fought overseas and saw military action in such noted battles as Ypres, Festubert, Verdun, Givenchy, and Somme, among others. He had literally come out of all the battles that he fought in without a scratch although he had been hospitalized for an unspecified illness from February 1916 until his discharge from the hospital in March 1916. Following his promotion to the rank of full Lieutenant he was awarded the distinguished Military Cross on July 19, 1916, for "Conspicuous Gallantry In The Field." On or about September 23-24, 1916, he was wounded by a rifle shot in the abdomen while fighting in Courcelette, France. He was taken to England for treatment and later passed away from his injuries which were listed as "wounds received in action" 23rd September, 1916, "Somme" at the No. 1 General Hospital, in the Camberwell area, of London, England, on October 11, 1916, at the age of 23. He never married, nor had any children. He was survived by his parents and sisters. Following his death, his family paid to have his body returned home and his coffin arrived in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, on November 16, 1916. His funeral procession started at the Peterborough Armoury and paraded down George Street in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Many veterans who had been wounded during World War I, and had returned home attended the funeral service. Following the funeral service, his coffin was then buried in the Ackerman family plot in Little Lake Cemetery in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was the only First World War casualty to be returned home to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, for burial. Sadly, in December 2014 vandals entered the Little Lake Cemetery in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and smashed to pieces sixteen monuments including the grave of Lieutenant Arthur Ross Ackerman who had been deceased for almost a century by this time. In 2015, a new monument was installed at the grave of Lieutenant Arthur Ross Ackerman, it has a Canadian Maple Leaf and a cross on it with an inscription that reads, "Lieutenant A.R. Ackerman, MC. 2ND Battalion, Canadian Inf. 11th October 1916, Age 23." Lieutenant Arthur Ross Ackerman is commemorated on Page 45 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.